NASA Awards 2025 Innovative Technology Concept Studies *Jan 10, 2025* *RELEASE 25-003* A collage of artist concepts highlighting the novel approaches proposed by the 2025 NIAC awardees for possible future missions. Credit: NASA/Left to Right: Saurabh Vilekar, Marco Quadrelli, Selim Shahriar, Gyula Greschik, Martin Bermudez, Ryan Weed, Ben Hockman, Robert Hinshaw, Christine Gregg, Ryan Benson, Michael Hecht NASA selected 15 visionary ideas for its NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) program which develops concep ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2025* **MEDIA ADVISORY: M25-008 NASA Sets Coverage for Firefly First Commercial Robotic Moon Launch* As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One lander will carry 10 NASA science and technology instruments to the Moon’s near side. Credit: Firefly Aerospace* * Carrying NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Firefly Aerosp ...Continue Reading

Temperatures Rising: NASA Confirms 2024 Warmest Year on Record This map of Earth in 2024 shows global surface temperature anomalies, or how much warmer or cooler each region of the planet was compared to the average from 1951 to 1980. Normal temperatures are shown in white, higher-than-normal temperatures in red and orange, and lower-than-normal temperatures in blue. An animated version of this map shows global temperature anomalies changing over time, dating back to 1880. Download this visualization from NASA Godd ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2025   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M25-005* * * *New Jersey Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station* * * NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore works inside the International Space Station’s Columbus laboratory module to begin installing the European Enhanced Exploration Exercise Device. (Credit: NASA) * * Students from the Toms River School District in New Jersey will have the chance to connect with NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Butch Wilmore as they answ ...Continue Reading

NASA Selects Electrical Systems Engineering Services Contractor *Jan 08, 2025* *CONTRACT RELEASE C25-001* Credit: NASA NASA has selected Columbus Technologies and Services Inc. of El Segundo, California, to provide electrical and electronic engineering support to the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Electrical Systems Engineering Services IV is a cost-plus-award-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum estimated value of $1.1 billion. The base period of pe ...Continue Reading

NASA to Explore Two Landing Options for Returning Samples from Mars This photomontage shows tubes containing samples from Mars, as collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.  The agency’s Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples back to study them in state-of-the-art facilities on Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity, NASA announced Tuesday a new approach to its Mars Sa ...Continue Reading

NASA to Cover Two Spacewalks, Hold Preview News Conference *Jan 07, 2025* *MEDIA ADVISORY M25-004* NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet conduct a spacewalk to complete work on the International Space Station on June 25, 2021. Credit: NASA Two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station, conducting U.S. spacewalk 91 on Thursday, Jan. 16, and U.S. spacewalk 92 on Thursday, Jan. 23, to complete station upgrades. NASA also will discuss the pai ...Continue Reading

NASA to Host Media Call Highlighting Mars Sample Return Update *Jan 03, 2025* *MEDIA ADVISORY M25-003* Credit: NASA NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Jan. 7, to provide an update on the status of the agency’s Mars Sample Return Program. The briefing will include NASA’s efforts to complete its goals of returning scientifically selected samples from Mars to Earth while lowering cost, risk, and mi ...Continue Reading

Jan. 3, 2025   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M25-002* * * *Idaho Students to Connect with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station* * * NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit points a camera outside a window on the International Space Station’s Poisk module for a sun photography session. (Credit: NASA) * * Students from Hawthorne Elementary School in Boise, Idaho, will have the chance to hear NASA astronaut Don Pettit answer their prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) r ...Continue Reading

Jan. 3, 2025 * * *MEDIA ADVISORY: M25-001* * * *NASA, NOAA to Announce 2024 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions* * * This map depicts global temperature anomalies for meteorological summer in 2024 (June, July, and August). It shows how much warmer or cooler different regions of Earth were compared to the baseline average from 1951 to 1980. (Credit: NASA/NOAA)   Climate researchers from NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) will release their annual assessments of glo ...Continue Reading